£24,937.00 to £26,598.00 per year, £24937.00 - £26598.00 a year
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
No
Closing Date:
18/04/2026
About this job
The Medical Secretary is responsible for
Providing a comprehensive secretarial and administrative service to medical staff and their supporting team.
Providing cover for colleagues in their absence to maintain service levels
Ensuring excellent communication is provided to patients, relatives, general practitioners and other hospital staff to ensure a proficient, high-quality service for patients and clinicians.
Ensuring all clinics are used to their full capacity and that any vacant slots are fully utilised and acted upon, including informing the Booking Office, to maximise capacity
Regularly informing the secretarial supervisor about progress and flags up as a matter of urgency any issues, for example, capacity or delays due to internal or external factors, difficult queries from patients, etc
Managing the pathway for patients referred in under the two-week wait ensuring they are monitored to minimise/avoid breach
Carrying out regular review and administrative validation of the clinicians return outpatient wait list
Supporting the achievement of Trust performance by ensuring administrative standards are met e.g., typing times, test results passed to clinician and any potential 52-week breaches are escalated to the clinician, secretarial supervisor or AGM/DGM to avoid breach
Ensuring all clinic cancellations/alterations are dealt with efficiently and in line with the Trusts 8 week annual/study leave policy.
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